Mylopotamos ( el, Μυλοπόταμος) is a municipality in
Rethymno
Rethymno ( el, Ρέθυμνο, , also ''Rethimno'', ''Rethymnon'', ''Réthymnon'', and ''Rhíthymnos'') is a city in Greece on the island of Crete. It is the capital of Rethymno regional unit, and has a population of more than 30,000 inhabitants ...
regional unit, on
Crete
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, southern
Greece
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. The seat of the municipality is the village
Perama.
The municipal unit has an area of .
[, former municipalities Geropotamos and Kouloukonas and municipal departments Axos and Zoniana from Anogeia.]
Municipality
The municipality Mylopotamos was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 3 former municipalities, which became municipal units:
[
* Geropotamos
* ]Kouloukonas
Kouloukonas ( el, Κουλούκωνας) is a former municipality in the Rethymno regional unit, Crete, Greece
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* Zoniana
Zoniana ( el, Ζωνιανά) is a town and a former municipality in the Rethymno regional unit, Crete, Greece
Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern ...
* Anogia
Former Province
The province of Mylopotamos ( el, Επαρχία Μυλοποτάμου) was one of the provinces
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...
of Rethymno Prefecture. Its territory corresponded with that of the current municipalities Mylopotamos and Anogeia
Anogeia (Ανώγεια) is a municipality in the Rethymno (regional unit), Rethymno regional unit, Crete, Greece. The municipality has an area of ., excluding the former municipal departments Axos and Zoniana. Population 2,379 (2011).
When exact ...
.[ ] It was abolished in 2006.
Ecclesiastical history
Modern Lefterna was the seat since 1212 of a Latin Roman Catholic Diocese of Milopotamus, which was suppressed in 1669 and turned into a Latin Titular bishopric
A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbish ...
of lowest (episcopal), which had its name changed in the 20th century into titular see of Eleutherna
Eleutherna ( grc-gre, Ἐλεύθερνα), also called Apollonia
( grc-gre, Ἀπολλωνία), was an ancient city-state in Crete, Greece, which lies 25 km southeast of Rethymno in Rethymno regional unit. Archaeologists excavated the si ...
.
See also
* Vosakou Monastery
References
{{Prefectures and provinces of Greece
Municipalities of Crete
Provinces of Greece
Populated places in Rethymno (regional unit)